April 14, 2018 02:12 pm PDT
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For the first time, a US president has classified the legal justification for taking publicly acknowledged actions
It's not uncommon for legal opinions from the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel to be classified; whenever the President wants to do something nefarious -- like authorizing the CIA's program of torture -- he'll get a memo out of the OLC, and then classify the whole thing: the action and its justification. (more…)
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